Are you looking for 5 social skills activities for kids? These social skills activities for kindergarten, preschool or special education students are all included in this spring product. These social skills coloring pages include social-emotional skills for preschool and lower elementary level. They are focused on developing social skills and developmental domains. The emotion and feelings worksheets are perfect for social skill goals for IEP‘s. Emotions and feelings activities for preschoolers help develop their social skills at home and in the community. This social skills PDF provides worksheets, flashcards, bingo coloring pages, seven writing props, and too many booklets all focused on Easter.
1. The flash cards are wonderful visuals to teach the social emotional preschool skills. Adults and kids can model the different faces. The cards can also serve as a conversation starter. I use these flash cards in my classroom to have students practice the emotions and it works on picture identification.
2. The worksheets provide practice to the kids about the emotions. The flash cards can be used with them to reinforce the various feelings and emotions. Matching, cut and paste and coloring the emotions provides social skills activities no matter the ability level. For teachers, these could be laminated and put in centers or task boxes for repetitive practice.
3. Finding the emotion with bingo dotters allows students to discriminate and identify specific emotions. These social skills activities are fun for the kids to work on that they don’t even realize they learning.
Use prompting questions to initiate conversations with the kids as they complete the worksheet. Prompting questions can include: What are some things that make you happy? What is something that makes you sad? When you are mad, how do you cool down? Being grumpy for me is looks like what?
“Use prompting questions to initiate conversations with the kids as they complete the worksheet.”
4. The writing and drawing prompts allow kids to express their understanding of an emotional through coloring and writing. They can give examples (verbally or written) about when they experience those emotions and feelings.
5. The two mini booklet are perfect for the students to practice reading simple sentences and for following directions.
In the end, emotions and feelings for preschoolers can be difficult to express at times but these activities allow social skills to be taught in a fun and exciting way! Check out this product for several spring themed social skills activities for kids.
